Joe ‘Bite Me’ Biden verses the Reality

First I want to say that I truly hope Joe Biden gets help for his drug problem – clearly after many of his remarks, he’s on them. Get help Joe – you need it.

Anyway I guess you heard what Bite Me said now…

Biden: ‘We’ve seen this movie before’

“For eight years before we arrived in the West Wing, Mr. Boehner and his party ran the economy literally into the ground,” he said. “We’ve seen this movie before, Mr. Boehner. We’ve seen it before and we know how it ends.”

Really?

Biden conceded that the economic recovery was not proceeding as fast as the administration had hoped, but claimed there was “no doubt we’re moving in the right direction.”

Problem is they’ve never said which direction they hope to go – if it’s down then that’s a true statement, otherwise it’s a lie.

Yeah that prior eight year really sucked deficit wise compared to Obama – what about unemployment? (NOTE: Bush spent way more than I liked but he was a rank amateur compared to Obama’s spending.)

Gee seems the unemployment under Bush was on average about 5.3% and under Obama it has been on average above 9.5% with a real unemployment rate is way over double that at 22% yeah the good old days they were horrible – if you were HOPING to be unemployed – but don’t worry Obama CHANGED that. Now unemployment is easy.

Well I’m sure Obama’s tax plan will make everything OK – right?

Obama’s Tax Plan: Bad for Economic Growth

Small businesses that employ the most workers would be particularly hard-hit if the top income tax rates go up.

Ok – well I was wrong about that – what else? Well BiteMe let’s have a look at some of the great leap forwards under Dopey and Thief…

Foreclosure rates surge, biggest jump in 5 years

More homes were taken over by banks and scheduled for a foreclosure sale than in any quarter going back to at least January 2005, when RealtyTrac began reporting the data, the firm said.

U.S. Bankruptcy Rate Skyrockets

The financial crisis just won’t go away. It has manifested itself in the poor performance of the housing market, the failure of hundreds of banks and an unemployment surge. One more problem that has emerged as a result of the recession is the soaring rate of bankruptcy filings across the nation. Bankruptcy filings rose by 20% in the past year, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. A stunning total surpassing 1.5 million bankruptcy cases were processed between June 2009 and June 2010, up from about 1.3 million in the prior 12-month period.

CD Rates are Falling: Bad News for Savers

The news of low overall interest rates could be good for borrowers and not so good for savers. Borrowers can look forward to paying lower fees when returning money on a loan which will them help pay off debt more quickly.

Savers are not so lucky. If you are living on a budget and stashing away money for later in CDs, you will not see high returns on those accounts. Many economists don’t see the problem improving in upcoming years. It can be frustrating if you are attempting to be responsible with your finances but not seeing much in return.

Food stamp use hit record 40.8m in May (2010)

The number of Americans who are receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government reported yesterday.

Number of Houston homeless children increasing at rapid rate

According to statistics released in 2009 by the Coalition for the Homeless of Houston/Harris County, 2,891 homeless children lived in the Houston area. That number has nearly doubled in 2010, as 5,404 children have been reported homeless so far this year.

The number of Americans who are receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government reported yesterday.

Tell me Joe do I really need to go on? We are on to your bullshit delusional lies and propaganda that things are better now than they were under Bush – Obama and Biden cannot point to a single success that their policies have yielded – not one! Oh the liberals will say the auto bailout was a success… really is it? GM is desperate to shake the “Government Motors” image and get out from under their thumb. How about the “Cash for Clunkers” program it was a fail. Oh they will say that Obama’s long delayed surge in Afghanistan was a success – a surge that fell 10′s of 1000′s of troops short resulting in a troop death increased to record levels under Obama. So tell me Joe what have you and the other idiot in office done that has worked? Where are the jobs? Where is the growth? Where is the booming economy? How about a easy one for the great communicator – foreign policy – how’s that working out? Not to good huh? So where are your successes Joe, where?

Don’t buy anything that comes out of this administration – the only truth I’ve heard is the claim of the “Fundamental Transformation of America” they just didn’t finish the sentence which said… ‘into a third world, third rate country.’

Yeah Joe, we’ve seen this movie you speak of before and you have too and it was shown in November 1994 and it will see it again this November when you tax and spend progressive morons are sent packing back under the rock from which you came. Remember Joe – what Nancy Reagan said “Just say no to drugs.” It’s good advice, take it.

Reality just ate Biden’s lunch.

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Let there be pain…

I know I haven’t posted in a few day – there has a been a lot going on that I really wish wasn’t, but tis life. I will not get into the who, what, when, where and why’s I will only say I pity the fool that crosses me.

So anyway, I stated this last week…

I don’t know about you but I’m sick of working my ass off to pay Federal government employees to set around and surf for porn, I’m sick of watching the Obama’s go on vacation after vacation and sending the tax payer the bill, I’m sick of seeing politicians go to Washington an average Joe (or Jane) and come back disconnected millionaires,  I’m sick of knowing that the average Federal government employee that works for us lowly tax payers makes on average twice what that of the average American and I’m sick of paying for the dead-weight and dredges of society to set around with their hand out looking for more. So I say start trimming the fat, start culling the slackers, start cleaning the house and let the pain begin – we tax payers have suffered long enough so to hell with share the wealth – it’s time to share the pain.

It seems every time the government talk about pain and sacrifice it never applies to them, it never applies to those with their hands out, it never applies to the career politician and it never applies to the L.I.F.E.R federal workers – (what’s a LIFER you may ask – it’s a military term for “Lazy Inconsiderate F***er’s Expecting Retirement”) Nope it only applies to the already over taxed worker in the 53 percentile that is just trying to get ahead. Well it’s time it stops and it’s time to start the sharing the wealth of the pain with those in Washington and the ones with their grubby little paws out chanting gemme, gemme, gemme. Let us check out a few links…

On occasion you’ll hear them talk about cutting entitlements out one side of their mouth while talking about expanding them out the other.

Dems may use food stamp money to pay for Michelle Obama’s nutrition initiative

Democratic leaders have voiced the hope that they will be able to stop them in future legislation.

And that’s all you need to know – they talk a big game and then quietly back track into wasting more money all a long. So while the Dems talk about cutting food stamps, just to turn around and talk about not cutting them – across the aisle the GOP wants to end anchor babies which I think most of us are all for according to most polls.

Boehner has said ending anchor babies is worth considering…

Boehner: End to Birthright Citizenship ‘Worth Considering’

House Minority Leader John Boehner on Sunday said he’s open to talks on changing the U.S. Constitution — or at least the way it’s interpreted — so that U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants are not automatically U.S. citizens.

“I think it’s worth considering,” Boehner said.

It’s not worth considering, it’s worth doing – no other country on earth allows you to become a citizen just by being born there – its time to end anchor babies. It’s time to send the illegal back from where they came and if the Federal government won’t do it, it’s time the states take charge and do the job the American Federal government doesn’t want to do – to toss their own turn a phrase in their face.

Anchor babies 8% of births in U.S. annually

As the phenomenon of so-called “anchor babies” — infants born to illegal aliens within the United States and its territories that automatically become citizens — becomes more of an election issue in many localities, a Pew poll reveals that 8 percent of babies born each year in the U.S. are anchor babies.

According to the Pew Hispanic Center, approximately 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in the United States in 2008 were the children of illegal aliens, many of whom emanate from Mexico.

In my world that qualifies as a invasion – and for me it doesn’t matter what country they come from Mexico, Canada, China, England etc – come to this country legally or get out – period.

And that’s just the start of it illegal cost the taxpayer an unbelievable amount of money.

Staggering Cost Of Illegal Aliens In America Taxpayers Taken To The Cleaners

This is not new it’s from 2008

The NRC found that the average immigrant household receives $13,326 in federal welfare and pays $10,664.00 in federal taxes. Thus, American taxpayers shell out $2,682.00 for each immigrant household.

In addition, the report showed that immigrants affect 15 different executive agencies of the U.S. government.

Earned Income Tax Credit-fraud is rampant and IRS does little to verify existence of children. Clean Air and Climate Change-these goals are unattainable as long as US population grows-driven by unending immigration. Emergency medical treatment-US taxpayer money provides $250 million a year to help hospitals defray costs for illegal aliens. Bureau of Land Management-the Interior Department spends $1 million to mitigate environmental damage done by illegals crossing US southern border. Migrant educational grants-intended to help states educate children of illegal workers. More fraud from over-counting. Office of Foreign Labor Certification-immigrant workers depress wages for US citizens resulting in declines in federal revenues at $100 billion annually.

So taking into account the amount of money being wasted on illegals – it’s time to cull the dead weight from the multitude of government hand out programs, it’s time to reduce food stamps and limit them to a few basic choices, it’s time to end government housing, government payments and provide those that are already lazy a way to stay that way. It’s not just illegals it’s mostly moocher Americans too.

It’s time to end endless unemployment do to tax and spend, anti business liberals – I have people ask me on occasion if I’d hire them and pay them cash so they can continue to draw their unemployment and they want $10, $15, $20 hour cash which is good money around here – to which I say if I hire you then you are no longer unemployed and if I find out you’re working for cash I’ll report you and who ever employs you as you are stealing from me – so you can get off the government tit and stop trying to double dip. Seriously who wants to hire anyone that has been slacking for over two years? I know I don’t.

But what do the idiot liberals do, extent unemployment again and again enabling the entitlement mentality to become ingrained.

These people in the White House promised that if the government spent a trillion of your dollars on stimulus unemployment would NOT go over 8% – well it did and it remains there and while the Moron in charge continues to blame Bush that excuse is running thin even with his base, most people don’t want excuses they want results…

Jobless millions signal death of the American dream for many

The headline jobless figure of 9.5% is bad enough but does not begin to convey the problem as it fails to measure those who have stopped looking for work. Over the past three months alone more than a million Americans have fallen into that category: effectively giving up hope of finding a job and dropping out of the official statistics. Such cases now number some 5.9 million and their ranks are likely to grow as millions more find their jobless status becoming a permanent state of hopelessness. Surveys show that with each passing week on the dole their chances of finding a job get slimmer.

How that HOPE and Change working out for you?

But aside from those that want to work verses those that want to mooch off the tit – the reality is nothing this man child has done has worked because he is clueless to basic business intelligence. Good Lord the man child never even had a paper route better yet ran an actual business.

So before I go all A.D.D. and get off the subject at hand I have to ask if Obama says America can no longer be the economic super power of the world, the driving force behind the worlds engine then how is it we can continue to afford to pay people to be worthless slugs? The money is not there, the money has been spend and the days of being spend happy drunkards are over it’s time to sober up cut the spending and pay the bills.

But to be clear…

Is every one getting help from the government a worthless mooch – no they are not but it’s a lot easier to find a system gamer or a fraud than it is to find someone who actually needs help – I say let charities and churches help those actually in need until we weed out the worthless as they are in a better position to weed out the fakes quickly without bureaucracy. The government on the other hand wants as many as dependent as they can get because when the government controls your money they control your life and political cowards want nothing more than a dependent masses – freedom is a threat to tyranny.

The pain of relearning self reliance must begin, it’s one thing to have a safety net for when you fall it’s another entirely to land on a Sleep Comfort bed – it’s been my experience in life that when you fall it hurts and you learn not to trip again – there are no lessons being taught today, they is no real pain in failure and there should be – sometime the failure is your fault, sometimes it’s not – that’s life and life is not fair and the soon people begin to relearn that basic fact the quicker this country gets back on the road.

Obama says it’s the Republicans that drove us into a ditch and now they want the keys back, he claim we are back on the road and he doesn’t think they need the keys back – well if this is the road I’d love to see their map, but I’ve got a pretty good idea what map they’re using and you’ll never get anyplace in America using a map of Europe or Russia where it seems Obama thinks we are.

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Where does the money come from? Not Obama.

Where are the crackers?

30,000 line up for housing vouchers, some get rowdy

Thirty thousand people showed up to receive Section 8 housing applications in East Point Wednesday, suffering through hours in the hot sun, angry flare-ups in the crowd and lots of frustration and confusion for a chance to receive a government-subsidized apartment.

The massive event sometimes descended into a chaotic mob scene filled with anger and impatience. Some 62 people needed medical attention and 20 of them were transported to a hospital, authorities said. A baby went into a seizure in the heat and was stabilized at a hospital. People were removed on stretchers and when a throng of people who had been waiting hours in a line were told to move to another line, people started pushing, shoving and cursing, witnesses said.

I guess the loony left will call me a racist if I point out that the crowd appears to be 100% Black, so I won’t.

Kim Lemish, executive director of the East Point Housing Authority, said the event marked the first time the city has offered Section 8 housing applications since 2002. The waiting list that lasted eight years had depleted, she said, and the agency was beginning a new one. So people braved all the physical difficulties just to get on a waiting list that could keep them waiting for years.

Lemish said the agency had expected about 10,000 people but three times as many showed up. Many were just accompanying those looking for an application. Some 13,000 applications were handed out.

(Said in my best Oliver Twist voice) Please sir, may I have some more handouts?

You know I could go on a long rant about enabling people to be dependent slugs but I’d be preaching to the choir and unlike the slacker that have all day to stand around looking for handouts I have a job and there are people that depend on my job for there job and people that depend on them to eat so I don’t have time to worry about the poor and downtrodden that do nothing to better their own life’s on their own without a handout from those that work and pay taxes.

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Clown in Chief

Obama to GOP: ‘You can’t have the keys back!’

The president said the Republican Party lack one “single, solitary new idea” and are “betting on amnesia” to help them in November. During a bit that drew hearty laughs from the Democratic audience, he likened the GOP to a driver who has gone into a ditch, and after not helping to push the car out, demands the keys back.

“You can’t have the keys back,” Obama exclaimed. “You don’t know how to drive!”

And yet Obama thinks his “new ideas” have worked? Man, I don’t want to point out the obvious again that – like the debt under Obama grew more in 18 months than it did under Bush in 8 years, that we haven’t had 2 years of 9% plus unemployment since the socialist FDR was in office, that Obama has been on the opposite side of the American people on nearly every position he’s taken, do I really need to cover all of these again? I think not.

The Smartass and Thief with his smug little grin fancies himself a comic – well I’ll agree he is a joke but the results of his actions are far from funny. I’ve never seen a President that has tried so hard to be “cute” with his partisan quips and his smartass remarks – then again I’ve never seen in my lifetime such a partisan president.

Obama fails to realize just how much he demeans the office of the president with childish behavior and frat boy attitude – he is an embarrassment to the nation.

That’s it, that’s all I have time for today.

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Gibbs: We don’t get involved in local issues – unless we don’t like them.

Beltway Bob said at the presser today….

GIBBS:  I’ve been asked about this a couple times.  I think this is a — widely a matter for New York City and the local community to decide.

MALVEAUX:  The president takes the position on religious freedom, on tolerance, why wouldn’t the administration –

GIBBS:  Well, I think you’ve heard this administration and the last administration talk about the fact that we are not at war with a religion but with an idea that has corrupted a religion, but that having been said I’m not from here gonna get involved in local decision making.

Tell that crap to Arizona Gibblet’s – tell that’s to the 20 plus states suing the governments ass over ObamaCare – exactly what was the attack on 9/11 an attack against NYC or the USA? I’m going with the latter and the White House doesn’t want to get involved? When the Cambridge police acted stupidly they wanted to be involved, when Arizona took the illegal problem seriously they wanted to be involved,they want to be involved in your health care, the care you drive, the food you eat, the energy you use, the Obama administration has stuck it’s nose into a endless list of local and personal issues and now that it involves Muslims and Mosque this yellow cowardly White House doesn’t get involved?

They’ve stuck their nose into auto companies, banks, Wall Street, hospitals, drug companies, states business, states rights and yet they don’t get involved in local issues?

Spineless wonders all of them – what a bunch of wimps and the quicker they’re gone the better off we are.

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EPA wants to ban dust?

Yes I know there is a millions other things going on and things of bigger political interest but I haven’t had time to breakdown every little stupid thing coming from Washington right now – there are ethics violations, pushes for cap and trade, pushes for this or that, somebody saying something stupid and while you’re not looking the EPA says it’s want to regulate dust…

EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering a crackdown on farm dust, so senators have signed a letter addressing their concerns on the possible regulations.

Farm dust – the EPA is going to crack down on dirt – you’ve got to be %@#^ing kidding me. It’s freaking dirt, earth and there is little you can do about it. The EPA is only second to Unions in job destruction in this country – they come up with some of the absolute dumbest, most insane regulations one could dream up – take my line of work for example if I work on a house build before 1978 that could have lead paint – according to the EPA I have to use a HEPA filter air purifiers, 6 mil plastic to seal off rooms with 3″ wide seal tape, I have to use a clean suit and a certified breather and eye protection just to cut a damn board that COULD have lead paint on it and after I cut the board I have to call a certified lead tester at my damn expense to test the area for lead dust and if it test positive I have to have the area cleaned again and pay for another testing – and if I don’t do any of this crap I could receive a $37,500.00 fine PER DAY. Now does that sound pro business to you? No, no and hell no the EPA is as anti business as Obama is incompetent.

So it you live on a farm be aware that the EPA is now trying to regulate dust – which I can’t wait to see them try to enforce – I’ve heard of some stupid stuff but this is up there.

I could go on and on regarding the EPA and most of their stupid ideas – but I’m tired and my head can’t take anymore stupidity today.

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“Tax Cuts for the Rich” rebranded “Middle Class Tax Cuts”

Democrats to Propose Extending Middle-Class Tax Cuts

Senate Democrats will soon advance a plan to make permanent President George W. Bush’s 2001 tax cuts for middle-class Americans earning less than $200,000, but let the tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans expire, two Senate party aides said Tuesday. They will also propose to reinstate a 45% estate tax on individuals for the next two years.

Oh hell no – Obama and every damn Democrat have been calling the Bush Tax Cuts… “tax cuts for the rich” since the day Bush signed them  they never-ever mentioned tax cuts for people making less then $200,000 in fact they’ve painted them ONLY for the rich so not only does the truth come out they have now figured out when push comes to shove that raising taxes ACTUALLY hunts the economy – WOW who would have thunk it?

But as always the Democrats are laying a trap for the GOP…

Democrats are betting that Republicans will once again take up a legislative battle on behalf of the wealthy. “Republicans are going to have a real choice ahead of them,” says a Democratic aide. “Are you for extending these tax cuts for middle-class families or are you against them because you want to protect tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% of Americans?”

First of all two-thirds of the so-called wealthiest American are small business filing as a sole proprietorship’s on their personal 1040 – they are not wealthy, they are not rich and after all the overhead and taxes they are not even middle-class. I know a lot of small business people that make over $250K per year but that is in gross sales, now deduct about half of that for goods and services, now deduct contract labor, insurance, fees, permits, licenses, utilities, maintaining equipment, building cost, taxes and taxes and taxes etc etc etc and a lot of these guys are lucky to make $25K-$30K take home a year but they are being taxed at the highest “rich guy” rate and being labeled as evil by this administration.

90%…. 90% of all jobs are created by small business and this moron in the White House is doing every damn thing he can to kill small business. Raising taxes in this economy along with all the changes in the tax laws next year is going to be devastating to business.

As I’ve said a hundred times we do not need to raise taxes on the few – we need to tax the 47% of American that are currently not paying any taxes at all, they need to have some skin in the game. The people that have money i.e. the so-called rich are the very people the invest in business, expend business and hire people. No one ever got a job from a poor person and if Obama has his why we’ll all be poor. Currently we have a consumer based economy and we need to move away from that and get back to becoming a production based economy. I don’t need to remind you that when Reagan cut taxes after second worst President ever Jimmy Carter the economy took off and receipts to the government sky rocketed – now the worst President ever Barack Obama wants to raise taxes in a sinking economy – the man is an absolute idiot if not purposely killing our economy.

Some Democrats side with Republicans, distance themselves from Obama on extending Bush tax cuts

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To many people are missing the other stories in this Sherrod mess.

Was Shirley Sherrod fired to quickly? Looks that way, did I post that she should be, sure did. Is she without sin? NO! She accused Fox News and Glenn Beck of getting her fired – fact is NEITHER Fox News nor Glenn Beck ran the edited video before she resigned, in fact Beck only ran the unedited video saying she should have her job back the following day, so Shirley Sherrod is a liar and has thus far gone unchallenged and she refuses to appear on Fox opting for friendly left-wing networks.

(It’s worth noting that Sherrod told the all black NAACP meeting to get a government job because you can’t be fired – talk about irony.)

The bigger story that has been lost in this mess is the NAACP’s hypocritical reaction – they owned the original video but came out against her at first not checking their own facts by watching their own video – acting only on hearsay – much like they have done with the Tea Party. No facts, just hearsay and unsupported rumor. But the approving reaction of discrimination against a White farmer by the NAACP is the real story here coming on the tail of their unfounded resolution against the Tea Party for racism. That part of the story is getting lost in the mix… they accuse other of racism while they exhibit it.

The White House Propaganda Minister Robert Gibbs said…

Gibbs: Sherrod is owed an apology

“Decisions were made based on an incomplete set of facts,” Gibbs said. “Members of this administration, members of the media, members of different political factions … have all made determinations and judgments without a full set of facts.”

I’m willing to bet this isn’t the first one and I think the White House “acted stupidly” – it seems to me that Obama and his administration makes a lot of comments and decisions based on a incomplete set of facts – they also make a lot of grand claims based on incomplete set of facts… case in point that tout some imaginary number of jobs saved or created – well what is the number of job lost or destroyed by this administrations policies? What’s that number 5 million? 10 million? They claim healthcare is not a tax then argue in court the right of the government to levy taxes in healthcares defense, they make endless claims of some grandiose gesture while leaving out the true cost to the American tax payer, They claim on cut increases on 95% of the American people forget on 53% pay taxes and they’ve raised taxes on 100% of them. Their knee-jerk decision making process is evidence of their inability to govern effectively – but with every knee-jerk decision they make, fingers point in all directions accept the one it needs to – themselves.

Beltway Bob went on…

Gibbs said that “we live in a culture (in which) things whip around, people want fast responses, (and) we want to give fast responses.”

“One of the great lessons you take away from this is to ask all the questions first,” he added.

Would that be anything like the fast response in the Gulf? Or would it be closer to the first response to the troop request in Afghanistan? Perhaps the fast response to GOP request to go line by line over the healthcare bill – which he never did. From what I’ve seen Obama “fast responses” have resulted in record deficits, fail stimulus, government take overs and failed after failed policies. Perhaps they should slow down and get the all facts before making their fast responses, but even then as in the Gulf and Afghanistan they get it wrong. Pathetic.

With all the example that can be cited of this White house making quick uninformed decision based on hearsay and rumor – one has to wonder just how many poor decisions are being made based on hearsay and rumor that we DON’T know about? I’m guessing it’s like cockroaches for every one you see they’re are a 1000 you don’t see.

What we have hear (is a failure to communicate) is children running with scissors in the White House that do not seem to comprehend that passing the blame is not a option at the top – even the smallest successful business person knows that – if you are in charge the blame stops with you. What the White House is trying to do is convince you that with all the resources, all the power, all the intelligence, all the technology, all the access to information and a staff of 1000′s that is at the finger tip of the highest office in the land – they are making decisions based on grainy homemade videos on internet.

Don’t you feel a little safer now?

(I could go on but I have to go work to support the slackers.)

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The Tax that is not a Tax

Changing Stance, Administration Now Defends Insurance Mandate as a Tax

WASHINGTON — When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect taxes.”

Wait a minute I seem to remember Dopey saying it wasn’t a tax…

“For us to say that you’ve got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase,” the president said last September, in a spirited exchange with George Stephanopoulos on the ABC News program “This Week.”

When Mr. Stephanopoulos said the penalty appeared to fit the dictionary definition of a tax, Mr. Obama replied, “I absolutely reject that notion.”

I guess he was lying AGAIN…

Mr. Obama “has not been honest with the American people about the nature of this bill,” Mr. Balkin said last month at a meeting of the American Constitution Society, a progressive legal organization. “This bill is a tax. Because it’s a tax, it’s completely constitutional.”

Well President Idiot hasn’t been honest since the day he was born – and I believe that while a tax is constitutional the argument should be they said multiple time it was not a tax and therefore the Supreme Court should rule on the grounds it’s not a tax, but it is and therefore unconstitutional based on the fact the administration lied to the American people.

“This is the first time that Congress has ever ordered Americans to use their own money to purchase a particular good or service,” said Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah.

And that is unconstitutional.

In its legal briefs, the Obama administration points to a famous New Deal case, Wickard v. Filburn, in which the Supreme Court upheld a penalty imposed on an Ohio farmer who had grown a small amount of wheat, in excess of his production quota, purely for his own use.

The wheat grown by Roscoe Filburn “may be trivial by itself,” the court said, but when combined with the output of other small farmers, it significantly affected interstate commerce and could therefore be regulated by the government as part of a broad scheme regulating interstate commerce.

But did they include … United States v. Lopez (1995) was the first decision in six decades to invalidate a federal statute on the grounds that it exceeded the power of the Congress under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. The opinion described Wickard v. Filburn as “perhaps the most far reaching example of Commerce Clause authority over intrastate commerce.”

No I didn’t think so.

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Oil Spill Timeline

Today is day 84!

Oil Spill Timeline from RightChange on Vimeo.

LEADERSHIP! Missing from the current administration.

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